blowhard

noun

blow·hard ˈblō-ˌhärd

plural blowhards

Synonyms of blowhard next

: an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart, windbag

… was trapped in a hellish marriage to … a struttingly insensitive macho blowhard.—

Owen Gleiberman

But he was seen by many in Congress as a blowhard, given to long-winded talks bristling with allusions to the Bible, ancient history, and the Constitution.—

Thomas E. Ricks

Examples of blowhard in a Sentence

a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else

Recent Examples on the Web If the man on the street sounds like a blowhard, hyperpartisanship explains why. —

Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023 Just think of the sequel, when an Airhead wants to bring her Earth boyfriend home from college to meet her blowhard father. —

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 June 2023 Change will come for good, because the thing the blowhards fear most has already come to pass. —

Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023 His persona: comic blowhard. —

Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021 What’s good prose, and who’s just a blowhard trying to show off? —

Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023 Wilson was Biff, the bullying blowhard. —

oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2023 Still, few of us aspire to be the office blowhard. —

Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023 Is Beowulf a politician or a locker-room blowhard? —

Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 See More

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